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DIED IN CENTRAL PARK; Sheppard Homans, Stricken in a Street Car, Expired Near His Home. HIS FAMILY WAS AT DINNER They Thought He Was Kept at His Office -- His Body Was Taken to the Morgue Before It Was Identified.

Sheppard Homans, Consulting Actuary for the Mutual Life Insurance Company and President of the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society, died suddenly, probably from heart failure, within a block of his home, 48 West Fifty-ninth Street, last night on his return from business. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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A version of this archives appears in print on January 9, 1898, on Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: DIED IN CENTRAL PARK; Sheppard Homans, Stricken in a Street Car, Expired Near His Home. HIS FAMILY WAS AT DINNER They Thought He Was Kept at His Office -- His Body Was Taken to the Morgue Before It Was Identified. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe